Wire-connector.



J. R. MOORE.

WIRE CONNECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED 050.20, 1911.

1,293,862. Patented Feb. 11; 1919.

2 a 5 4 *4 C a JOSEPH RAYMOND MOORE, OF BALTIlIMORE, MARYLAND.

WIRE-CONNECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

Application filed December 20, 1917. Serial No. 208,059.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrrr RAYMOND MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Connectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wire connectors for electric bells, batteries, etc, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and etiicient device by means of which the electric wires can be readily connected with batteries, bells, and other similar devices.

The invention consists of the novel construction and arrangements of the parts hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and pointed out in detail in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my invention showing the wire clamped in. position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a similar view to FigQ, with the wire removed, and showing the parts in their normal position.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the invention is formed.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which like reference numerals designatelike parts throughout the several riews, l. desig nates the base of the connector, all of which is formed of resilient metal, and is provided with a finger rest, or head, 52 on one end and two tangs 3 near the other end. The front end of the device is cut away at each side and bent up at 4 and then back over the base and is provided with a shoulder 5 near said finger rest, or head 2. The tangs 3 are formed by cutting the metal at each side of and parallel with the base and then bending them upwardly and then downwardly at their ends and between which the upwardly bent end ofthe device operates. To connect the wire 6 the finger is placed on the rest 2 and the end forced down between the tangs 3, the wire is then inserted under said tangs 3 and over the end against the shou1der'5. The finger is then raised which releases the end and the resiliency of the metal holds the Wire in position.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is: l

A Wire connector comprising a resilient metal piece one end of which forms a base and is provided with two tap s, one at each side of and parallel with the base and bent upwardly and then downwall-dly, and the other end of said metal piece ,lll eiun cut away at its sides and bent back ov Ill base and adapted to operate up. and dove", between said tangs to hold the wire in position therein. l In testimony whereof I aitix my signature in the presence of two witnesseai JOSEPH RAYMONI MOORE.

Vitnesses CHAPIN A. FERGUSON, NORMA Connnmo. 

